Sensation Quotes

Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.

In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

I was an overnight sensation.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.

That fat speed that I love, that sensation, that's what I want.

For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Chasing the sensation. Whether it was drugs or sex or whatever. Those things had become my main focus in life.

I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.

There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable. If I looked down at the cable there was water moving everywhere. And if I looked up there was heavy mist blowing in front of my face. So it was a very unique, a weird sensation.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.